Photo of Wole Soyinka by the author
Inspired by a photo and the histories connected to it, a writer makes a film to mark Wole Soyinka’s ninetieth year.
The photo of a young man of thirty-five, on…
Essays
Photo of Chihuahuan Desert, Contrabando Area ~ Big Bend Ranch State Park by Gary Nored / flickr.com Can we tell stories, the author asks, “in a way that makes more breathing room, that does no…
Photo of bus route in Buenos Aires by Carolina Jaramillo / Stock.adobe.com Taking all the buses of Buenos Aires, a writer on a mission makes the city his own. Around 2008 I made the unlikely deci…
Photo of LGBTQ Pride March in Buenos Aires by Ari / Stock.adobe.com Each November, Buenos Aires’s Pride march proceeds down a ten-block stretch that is the “spine of Argentine history,” fulfilling…
Photo of Once Quarter, Buenos Aires by Jordi Camí / Alamy.com Visiting the Jewish neighborhood of Once, a writer finds herself caught between a desire to escape the internet and a need to connect…
Photo of Stadio Diego Armando Maradona by Stefano Tammaro / Stock.adobe.com Reflecting on his love of football, Oliverio Coelho has an epiphany: some players on the pitch stand out, not just…
Photo by travelview / Stock.adobe.com Take a whirling tour of Buenos Aires’s secondhand bookstores and meet an array of eccentric reader types with porteño writer Matías Serra Bradford. A ci…
Photo by nickalbi / Stock.adobe.com In any discussion of Buenos Aires, it’s probably useful to start out by defining our parameters. For the rest of the world, “Buenos Aires” conjures images of ta…
Photo of monument to Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky by abs0lute / Stock.adobe.com Against increasing calls to “cancel” Dostoevsky due to the Russian nationalism espoused in his wr…
Photo of Lebanon by Patricia Abdallah / Unsplash.com “Through a sort of grating irony,” writes Charif Majdalani, Lebanon “remains a sort of model but in the negative sense of the term, because it…
Photo by Ella Ivanescu / Unsplash.com Climate change, resource depletion, extreme weapons, AI, and more: Richard Heinberg looks at the individual threats composing the unprecedented convergence of…
Photo of Sandra Day O'Connor by Yousef Khanfar / www.yousefkhanfar.com Photographer Yousef Khanfar recalls his time with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in this tribute to the first female justice of…
Photo by Shevaun Williams | shevaunwilliams.com After accepting the NSK silver medallion, certificate, and a check symbolizing the $35,000 award, Gene Luen Yang delivered a heartwarming story abou…
Even though the Latin American novel was never the West’s “Other,” the new Handbook published by Oxford University Press does a marvelous job of producing a sorely needed remapping of the continent’s…
Mural in the vicinity of Croke Park, Dublin / Photo by Damjana Mraović-O’Hare What are the three ancient Irish sports and how have they played a role in Irish history? Find out this and more in Mr…
When reflecting on the experience of interviewing his own grandfather into his one hundredth year, Matt A. Hanson finds a kindred methodology in writer Michael Frank’s patience as he interviewed Holoc…
Sona Jobarteh, the first woman to achieve an international profile playing the kora, is a singular figure in the pantheon of twenty-first-century African artists. Read Banning Eyre’s profile of her…
Photo courtesy of author A refugee from the Bosnian War, Lana Spendl recalls family weekends in the country outside of Sarajevo: her friend with one cow, her grandmother’s garden, butterflies, and…
Photos by Yousef Khanfar | www.yousefkhanfar.com The tears, the rituals: a family goes on a journey and joins millions of strangers pouring into Mecca. In this moving essay, a writer evokes the be…
Photo BY 1983 (steal my _ _ art) on Unsplash To accompany the poems that appear by the five Indigenous writers in this issue, Wendy Call talked with them to discuss their emancipatory linguistic a…
Ian Kuali’i, Portrait Queen Lili‘uokalani (2021), hand-cut paper with painted verso, 72 X 48 in. The following essay was originally delivered as a talk for a virtual poetry workshop for t…
Puracé Volcano in the Colombian Massif / Courtesy of Wikipedia Quechua writer and Yanakuna poet Fredy Chikangana explores how the Yanakuna language “contributes seeds to the construction of a…
William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 2. The Tête à Tête (1743) After a decade of talking to strangers while traveling, J. R. Patterson explores why strangers make some of the best co…
For the past few years I’ve been living in Lahore. Like they have for many, the brave women-led Iranian protests have made me reflect on the rights of women and the price we pay for freedom and justic…
When Irina Flige visited the University of Oklahoma to receive the 2022 Clyde Snow Social Justice Award earlier this year, she delivered the following public lecture, based on her work with the Russia…
